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I think El Kaddouri will start instead of Cimirot. Cimirot might not even be on the team by game time, since we are shopping him around. I also expect Zambrano and Mauricio to be on the bench for this game.

Iraklis is a very complicated situation that involves the original Iraklis, the fake Iraklis (AEP), and fans with major complex that dictate on how their team should be run, pretty much not allowing any investor into putting money into the team. The fake Iraklis decided that they can't take part in Football league and basically are being dissolved by the crooked owner Spyros Papathanasakis. He could decide to play in 3rd division (amateur), but I doubt that he has any money to do that either. Now who will pay the 4 mil Euro debt he created is another question. Then there is the amateur Iraklis (the real one) that could field a football team if they decide to do so, but they would have to start playing in Thessaloniki's 3rd division. Incidentally the amateur Iraklis has a debt of 499 milion Euro!!! Another option is to create another fake Iraklis and there is already talk of absorbing the team Iraklis Ambelokipi and renaming that team Iraklis Thessaloniki. If that happens the team would start competition in Thessaloniki's 1st Division. In any case if there no investor putting money into the team, the team has no future.

VS MATCHUP: Apollon Smyrnis - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 3 DATE: 11-September-2017 TIME: 19:30 EEST (16:30 GMT, 11:30 CDT, 02:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Athens - Rizoupoli Stadium (13,920) REFEREES: Dimitris Styliaras (Aitolokarnania) - Athanasios Kolosionis (Aitolokarnania), Tryfon Petropoulos (Arkadia) TELEVISION: novasports1 (Greece/Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia Apollon Smyrnis vs. PAOK history: Superleague 2013-2014: 3:3 (Lucas 2, Katsikas) - Attendance: 1,855 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1999-2000: 3:4 (Nalitzis 2, Frousos, Kafes) - Attendance: ? 1998-1999: 1:4 (Tacola, Toursounidis, Katsabis, Cominguez) - Attendance: ? 1997-1998: 4:4 (?) - Attendance: ? 1996-1997: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1995-1996: 0:1 (Zouboulis) - Attendance: 1,186 1994-1995: 2:1 (Alexiou) - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 3:1 (Dermitzakis-p) - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 2:1 (Djurdjevic) - Attendance: ? 1991-1992: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 4:2 (H. Hassan, I. Hassan) - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1986-1987: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1985-1986: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1984-1985: 1:3 (Damanakis 2, Skartados) - Attendance: ? (played at Nea Filadelfia) 1983-1984: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1982-1983: 2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: ? 1981-1982: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1979-1980: 1:0 - Attendance: ? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 0:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 0:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1971-1972: 0:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1970-1971: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1967-1968: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1966-1967: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1965-1966: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1964-1965: 1:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1963-1964: 2:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1962-1963: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1961-1962: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1959-1960: 2:1 (?) - Attendance: ? Panhellenic Championship 1957-1958: 3:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 3:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1955-1956: 2:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 2:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1947-1948: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 3:3 (?) - Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 3:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 0:1 (?) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 46 WINS: 9 TIES: 11 LOSSES: 26

I think we if we get a good offer from Turkey, I think PAOK will sell Biseswar. By all accounts Biseswar will be a bench player if he stays. However I doubt if it is going to be on a free transfer just to shed his salary. Personally I don't want Biseswar to go. I would prefer to sell Pelkas before we sell Biseswar.

I think every time the team is not doing good, talk of new Toumba surfaces as a smoke screen.

Watched the England - Slovakia game. Mak got injured with 10 minutes to go. Did not look good for him.

PAE PAOK claims that the team is done with transfers.

3:1 now

We are just coasting while Volos is playing like they are in the cup final. Two of their counter attacks resulted in one goal and one penalty and 2:0. El Kaddouri now makes it 2:1

The friendly against Volos is being streamed here: http://www.sport24.gr/LiveMatches/football_live/volos-paok-live.4827729.html

Stefanidi won the Diamond League with a 1st place today at Brussels with a jump of 4.85m. Tried to break the Greek record at 4.92m but failed.

Lost 6:3, 6:4 to Venus. Stil respectable showing.

Video of the Klaus goals in his first game for Maccabi:

Squad for tomorrow's friendly: Ρέι , Πασχαλάκης, Σιαμπάνης, Λέοβατς, Λεβέκ, Κωνσταντινίδης, Πούγγουρας, Βαρέλα, Μαλεζάς, Κάνιας, Κάτσε, Μπίσεσβαρ, Ελ Καντουρί, Πέλκας , Κόζακ, Σταθόπουλος, Χατζηστραβός, Τσαούσης, Γκαργκαλατζίδης, Δοδοντσάκης, Μπαλογιάννης, Δημητριάδης Of our recent signings only El kaddouri is making the trip.

That's a good lineup for those Cup games against the Football League teams.

If we get 5 mil for Henrique, that's like robbing a bank. We invested 1.2 mil to get him.

Following our summer signings here is how our roster is shaping up: -------------------------------------------------- Rey ------------------------------------------------------- (Paschalakis) (Glykos) Matos -------------------- Zambrano ------------ Crespo ------------- Leveque (Konstantinidis) (Varela) (Malezas) (Leovac) (Vierinha) (Pouggouras) (Deligiannidis) --------------------- Canas ----------------------------------------- Mauricio -------------------- (Cimirot) (Shakhov) (Kace) Vierinha ---------------------------- El Kaddouri --------------------------- Mak (Campos) (Biseswar) (Mystakidis) (Limios) (Pelkas) (Pelkas) ------------------------------------------ Prijovic ------------------------------------------- (Koulouris) (transfer) Wonder if Lucescu will entertain a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 formations.

To recap the summer transfer period: Limnios (3-years, 130K) Leveque (3-years, 350K) Rey (3+1 years, 400K) Paschalakis (1-year, 140K) Vierinha (3-years, 1.3mil) El Kaddouri (4-years, 800K Zambrano (1-year loan, 1.2mil) Mauricio (3-years, 1.5mil) Mak (1-year loan, 650K) Not a bad transfer period if you ask me. Players that left: Pereyra, Antonis, Korovesis, Athanasiadis Players loaned out: Warda, Melissas, Lambrou, Kitsiou, Charisis, Jairo, Giannoulis, Chatziisaias, Henrique

Sparta Prague is our opponent in the Round of 32.

Koulouris scored the second goal for U21 NT in the game against Belarus. He was also the captain of the team in the game. If anyone wants to watch Mak in the Slovakia - Slovenia game, it is available on ESPN3. He is in the starting lineup.

I still think that we will make a move with a free player. Most likely a backup for Prijovic. Zambrano comes to us on 1-year loan, and it appears that we will pay for half his salary as part of the deal with Rubin Kazan. That's around 1.2 mil that PAOK will pay. Remains to be see if there is a buyout clause.

Yianko everyone has their opinion and is free to express them. After all that's forums are for. In my opinion Crespo is a solid player that helped us last season. He might be a secunda division player, but most of SL teams are at a secunda division level anyway. You're right that if we want to look forward to bigger things we need better players, including center backs.

But only to countries that still have transfer windows open (Spain, Turkey, etc.)

Apparently the reason why we have not announced Zambrano yet is because Rubin Kazan was late in reporting the deal to FIFA even though everything was already agreed between the two teams and the player on time. FIFA now has to approve the deal.

It appears Crespo's injury is not as serious as first thought. He'll be out for about 10 days.